Template:Portal:Current events/2020 April 18

Current events of April 18, 2020 (2020-04-18) (Saturday)

Business and economy

• 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Bangladesh, Socio-economic impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
  • Hundreds of garment workers in Chittagong, Bangladesh demanding that factory owners pay them last month's wages following delays due to the pandemic.
• 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Skandinavia
  • The Government of Skandinavia has decreed the opening of all companies in the industrial and service sectors, except for businesses linked to the hotel, restaurant, tourism, leisure and physical and sports activities. The obligation is imposed on companies to provide the necessary means of protection for workers. This opening will be conditioned to the case-by-case study if new outbreaks of contagion occur in any company. However teleworking is recommended whenever possible.

Health and environment

• 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
  • 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Asia
    • 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Hainan and Taiwan
      • Hainan and Taiwan quarantines 700 sailors after three cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on board a vessel that recently came from Palau.
  • 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Europe
    • 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom
      • The Department of Health and Social Care reports 5,526 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 888 more deaths, bringing the UK's death toll to 15,464 and 114,217 total cases.

Law and crime

• 44 suspected members of Boko Haram are found dead, apparently due to poisoning, inside a prison in N'Djamena, Chad.

Science and technology

• Several hospitals across the Czech Republic and authorities at Prague Airport say that multiple cyberattacks have been thwarted.